David Levithan Quotes
The important thing is for the characters to feel real, and to be given the humanity they are due. That granting of humanity is what separates a full portrait from a stereotype.
Quotes to Explore
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I worked as a head cook at courthouses and high schools. I left it behind when I started getting into my music real heavy.
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Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.
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The very important thing you should have is patience.
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That's maybe the most important thing each generation does, is to break a lot of rules and make up their own way of doing things.
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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
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I have a real interest in baking. I'd love to go to culinary school. That's actually my plan: to graduate high school and go to culinary school.
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My whole thing is to entertain, make people laugh and to forget about the real world for awhile.
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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
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My kids have a competitive drive I never had growing up.
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Address these environmental issues and you will address every issue known to man. And we keep dabbling in things that aren't really that important in the long term.
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Relationships are hard. If as an actor you marry an engineer or a doctor, it's really hard for them because they don't understand what your life is like. We live two lives. We have a 'reel' life and a real life.
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My thing about going to the gym is that I leave my bracelets on, and I put on my makeup the way I would do it in real life, and I wear cute clothes, because if I don't feel good when I leave the house, then I'm not motivated to do it. I need to like how I look while I'm doing it.
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Red Interactive, the digital advertising agency, is a real, systemic kind of business, as opposed to a one-off thing. We can help advertisers frustrated by old media find clients they can work with.
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I'm related to the portrait painter George Romney.
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I can have three touchdowns and 200 yards, but if we lose the game, what's it all for?
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There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.
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It was a real surprise to me to come across the evidence that Christianity might once have been a danced religion. Certainly, some of the early church leaders thought this was great and spoke of what seems to have been circle dancing, perhaps around an altar.
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I have certainly been very front footed about increasing our gender representation at Westpac.
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I make movies to be watched the way I want to watch them, and I want to watch them in movie theatres.
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The late Christopher Hitchens had the professional contrarian's fixation on attacking sacred cows, and rather soon after his cancer diagnosis, he became one himself.
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We are screaming battle cries against those whose political and personal agendas threaten our lives and sanity.
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From infancy, I had been accustomed to hear pro and con discussions of slavery and the American Civil War. Although the British government finally decided not to recognise the Confederacy, public opinion in England was sharply divided on the questions both of slavery and of secession.
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The important thing is for the characters to feel real, and to be given the humanity they are due. That granting of humanity is what separates a full portrait from a stereotype.
